Proteolytic cleavage and cell wall anchoring at the LPXTG motif of surface proteins in Gram‐positive bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 115-121

  Navarre, William Wiley ^a,b   Schneewind, Olaf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL WALL; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0027992980     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb01271.x     Document Type: Article

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